CFP: The Animal in Thought and Fable (9/15/06; ASECS, 3/22/07-3/25/07)

The animal is something of a hot topic right now: MLA 2006 willboast no less than three panelsdevoted in some way to it. So much of what is being said and done onthe topic, however, isframed by the question: what is the animal for the human. That is,this work directly followsthe paradigm set down by Giorgio Agamben in his book L'aperto:L'uomo e l'animale (2002),taking the animal to constitute the human. This panel asks: Is thereanother way to understandthe animal? And can we find that way (or indeed, ways) in theeighteenth century?

Please send Abstracts for proposed papers, along with a brief CV, to:tcbrown_at_umn.edu.